Senior CPU Microarchitecture Performance Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Boxborough (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA (with Boxborough, MA option) seeks a Senior Design Engineer for the Core Performance Modeling team.

You will contribute to CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis, with potential expansion into simulator development and model correlation. The ideal candidate has strong C++ and scripting skills, architecture background, and a track record in cycle-accurate simulation and pre-silicon analysis, along with potential

Qualifications

• C++ programming and scripting language capabilities.
• Computer architecture background through coursework and/or work experience.
• Cycle-accurate microarchitecture performance simulator development.
• Pre-silicon performance analysis.
• Computing software, including operating systems, compilers, and applications.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and perseverance with published papers or filed patents that contribute to the industry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a small, dedicated team of hardware and software engineers to optimize the performance of CPU microarchitecture.
• Expand your experience with cycle-accurate core microarchitecture performance simulator development, workload and trace analysis, microarchitecture development, RTL vs performance model correlation, and so forth.

Skills

C++ programming

Scripting languages

Education

Bachelor's / Master’s / PhD in Computer Science, ECE, or EE

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA (with Boxborough, MA option) seeks a Senior Design Engineer for the Core Performance Modeling team.

You will contribute to CPU microarchitecture development, performance modeling, and analysis, with potential expansion into simulator development and model correlation. The ideal candidate has strong C++ and scripting skills, architecture background, and a track record in cycle-accurate simulation and pre-silicon analysis, along with potential